The Economics of Henry George
History's Rehabilitation of America's Greatest Early Economist
Henry George was the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American
economists. Without formal education he trained himself in classical economics and
developed a theory of a "single tax" suggestive of the work of the earlier
French économistes. Academic economists of his day rejected his work, but it
enjoyed great public popularity in the United States, Europe, Australia and other places.
He was more widely read than any other early American economist. History has seen his
rehabilitation at the hand of modern economists who have reviewed and analyzed his work in
great detail. There is much specialized literature on many specific facets and aspects of
George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics and of
this historic rehabilitation. This brief book attempts to fill that gap.
PHILLIP J. BRYSON is the Douglas and Effie Driggs Professor of
Economics in the Department of Finance at Brigham Young University Marriot School and
Associate Director of the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies, USA.
His expertise is in the areas of comparative economics systems, international economics,
and microeconomics with particular research focus on fiscal decentralization, the Chinese
economy, and Henry George in contemporary economics.
Table of Contents
Henry George's Pursuit of Knowledge: On Methodology and Methods
The Life and Economics of Henry George
Henry George's Theory of Distribution
Appendix
Henry George on Free Trade and Protection
Henry George on Land and Land Policy
Henry George and Modern Economics
Appendix
250 pages, Hardcover